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Luke 1:75 KJV
Luke · chapter 1 · verse 75
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.Luke 1:75 · King James Version
Luke 1:75 in context
73The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
74That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
75In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
77To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnessdikaiosynēin a broad sense state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition…G1343 →
- holinesshosiotēspiety towards God, fidelity in observing the obligations of piety, holinessG3742 →
- beforeenōpionin the presence of, before, of occupied place in that place which is before, or over…G1799 →
- dayshēmerathe day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as…G2250 →
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We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened; in it he is said to prophesy (Luk 1:67), and so he did in the strictest sense of prophesying; for he foretold things to come concerning the kingdom of the Messiah, to which all the prophets bear witness. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 67-80